Most visitors to restaurants arrive in even-numbered groups: a table for two, table for four. Most appetizer nibbles at restaurants arrive in odd numbers: five fritters, nine slices of crudo, three ...
Are odd numbers dominating our lives as Gregg Opelka writes in “The Odds Are Against Even Numbers” (op-ed, Dec. 26)? Well, we just enjoyed the 12 days of Christmas and will soon begin the election ...
There’s something odd about our arithmetic. Like Rodney Dangerfield, even numbers don’t get no respect. Start with prime numbers. A prime number has only two factors, meaning it is divisible only by ...